William L. Maltby wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 21:54 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: >> Thank you for all of the suggestions. So far I have tried them all but >> still cannot fathom it out. The files have just disappeared and I don't >> know how or why. >> >> I think all I can conclude is that they are gone for good. > > Last gasp: any chance of FS corruption? Maybe an fsck run will show some > errors, corrections and put some goodies in lost+found? > >> <snip sig stuff> > > HTH Hi Williams I have already tried this and gave no errors (even with fsck -f) and nothing appeared in lost+found. Strange one. -- Regards, Stewart Williams